Example sentences of "but for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 2 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 3 | But for most Tories , excluding a minority who thought he was too soft , this budget was welcome relief . |
| 4 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 5 | But for most conservation and environmental issues , there is no market , so it is not in the farmer 's interest to buy some advice . ’ |
| 6 | But for most of the campaign , the 12th since the Republic began in 1945 , there have been fewer fireworks and more sober reflection . |
| 7 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 8 | But for most ordinary horses and jockeys , the Mildmay fences , four of them brand-new , turned out to be , by modern standards , exceptionally stiff . |
| 9 | But for most States , that only became feasible in the nineteenth century with the development of popular participation . |
| 10 | The DHAC had proved that new and imaginative methods of protest could make an impact on the Unionist administration at the Guildhall , but for most opponents of the Unionist Party in Derry this was a reason for achieving a greater degree of anti-Unionist unity in order to press home their advantage , not to become equally hostile to the Nationalist Party . |
| 11 | Depending on who you are , some of these fantasies may well come true , but for most of us , these are dreams that we keep to ourselves for company on lonely training runs and to help with motivation . |
| 12 | There are some good teachers , but for most it is a case of ‘ We piss them off and they piss us off . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps not for a seasoned traveller like Byron , but for most people there are still thousands of miles to cover and hundreds of countries to explore . |
| 14 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | Many professional travellers say that there is nowhere left to travel , but for most of us the old maxim that anywhere is new if you have not been there before , is true , and there are plenty of places left to escape to . |
| 16 | But for most developmental systems , there is , perhaps disappointingly , little evidence for such a mechanism . |
| 17 | Second , it 's possible for some explosive activity to take place in the summit crater , but for most of the lava to be erupted quietly from a vent or fissure on the flanks of the volcano . |
| 18 | There are a few individuals such as hermits or members of closed religious orders who choose to reduce their opportunities for communication and human interaction to a minimum ( and they may find satisfaction in communing with nature , or with a deity ) but for most people communicating with fellow humans is essential to living , to survival and to the quality of life . |
| 19 | For some it 's coaching , for others it 's journalism and the media but for most it 's the fairground of small businesses and professional scams . |
| 20 | I suppose yoga enthusiasts would find it painless , but for most of us an hour spent in this position was an ordeal . |
| 21 | But for most of the polytechnics the formality of instruction is limited to a small percentage of course marks awarded as part of the assessment of projects . |
| 22 | But for most of his contemporaries it was Smith 's immense personal charm , warmth and good humour they valued most . |
| 23 | But for most the change will ring in new pleasures . |
| 24 | But for most , persistence and endurance were still the prerequisites of educational advance . |
| 25 | I can easily carry the hazard under normal circumstances , but for most average players the landing area is level with the water hazard . |
| 26 | As we shall describe , provision can be made for camera survival ; but for most kite flyers the camera value , not to mention associated control systems , will be a major consideration . |
| 27 | But for most it is difficult to imagine that minerals may also have consciousness . |
| 28 | They might often be forced , through declining health and strength , to take on low-paid and unskilled work , but for most people the idea of giving up work was not possible , short of the desire to risk starvation or enter the workhouse . |
| 29 | But for most amateur porn stars , performance anxiety is not a problem . |
| 30 | It is true that Hannah 's work on occupational pension schemes suggests that large companies may have managed the retirement process in order to control their internal labour markets , but for most of the century such schemes have covered only a minority of workers . |